WoRMS taxon details
Istiblennius spilotus Springer & Williams, 1994
219300 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219300)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Springer, V. G.; Williams, J. T. (1994). The Indo-West Pacific blenniid fish genus <i>Istiblennius</i> reappraised: a revision of <i>Istiblennius</i>, <i>Blenniella</i>, and <i>Paralticus</i>, new genus. <em>Smithson. Contrib. Zool.</em> 565: 1-193., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.565 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Istiblennius spilotus Springer & Williams, 1994. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219300 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Springer, V. G.; Williams, J. T. (1994). The Indo-West Pacific blenniid fish genus <i>Istiblennius</i> reappraised: a revision of <i>Istiblennius</i>, <i>Blenniella</i>, and <i>Paralticus</i>, new genus. <em>Smithson. Contrib. Zool.</em> 565: 1-193., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.565 [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Istiblennius spilotus)
To FishBase
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Istiblennius spilotus USNM 220913 holotype photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Istiblennius spilotus USNM 220913 holotype radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Istiblennius spilotus)
To FishBase
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Istiblennius spilotus USNM 220913 holotype photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Istiblennius spilotus USNM 220913 holotype radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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